Regex to match all the strings between two identical strings

Question

E.g. I have this string -- This -- is -- one -- another -- comment -- I want the matched elements to be \"This\", \"is\", \"one\", \"another\", and \"comment\"

Answer 1

To read all I would use positive look achead:

const data = '-- This -- is -- one -- another -- comment --'

const readAll = data => {
  const regex =/--\s*(.*?)\s*(?=--)/g
  const found = []
  let temp
  while (temp = regex.exec(data)) {
    found.push(temp[1])
  }
  return found
}

console.log(readAll(data))

And to remove comments just do this:

const data = `-- This -- is -- one -- another -- comment -- this is not a comment`.replace(/--.*--/g, '')

console.log(data)